Hedgemaids and Fairy Candles: The Lives and Lore of North American Wildflowers
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Book Overview
Author Jack Sanders explores the lives & lore of more than 80 of North America's most popular wildflowers, describing the origins of their names, their places in history & literature, what uses ancient herbalists found for them, what uses they have now, where they grow, how they reproduce, & how to grow or transplant them.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0877423903
ISBN13:9780877423904
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Ragged Mountain Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.6" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
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The world in a wildflower...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Emerson knew... Audubon knew... Steichen knew... Jack Sanders knows... an exhaustive yet never exhausting catalogue of the world beneath our feet... that which we ignore... yet which means so much... Jack Sanders... Carl Sandburg... a poet of nature... The Big Eye appreciates the ones who notice...
The best book on wildflower folklore in or out of print
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
An indefatigable researcher, wildflower lover and newspaper editor Jack Sanders has compiled an extraordinary collection of information about North American wildflowers. Learn here about the naming of plants, their medicinal uses, and what the great naturalists of the past said about them. The book is gorgeous and the text is alive with Sanders's wit and wisdom. I recommend the book most enthusiastically to floraphiles, botanists, and naturalists.
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